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Examples of how welfare reform will impact on the income of people with learning disabilities.

Welfare Reform- Impact on Providers Workshop

The Big Changes to Benefits- an easy read guide on the main benefit changes

Free Workshops for Members of H&SA and Inclusion North. Thursday 30th May 2013 in York. Do you work with people who are going to be affected by the changes to benefits? Do you find yourself wondering what the Bedroom Tax is? Do you want to know how much less or more money people will be getting each week? Places are limited so book asap

A briefing on the benefit cap that shows the impact on families with disabled adults living in the family home

This page is a briefing about the Bedroom Tax and how it may affect people with learning disabilities

This paper from The Centre for Welfare Reform and the Housing and Support Alliance challenges our members and others to not get trapped by the limitations of the thinking in our sector and become more practical, political and in tune with our times.

An overview of Types of Tenancy Agreements

An overview of Deputyship and Lasting Power of Attorney

A briefing about how Universal Credit will replace current means-tested benefits from April 2013.

A guide to the different ways a family can arrange housing for a disabled relative.

This page tells you about shared housing with support. Sometimes this is a group home. But it can be individual flats.

A fact sheet that tells you about adapting a property.

press release Freedom a guide - Simon Duffy

This fact sheet tells you about ways of leaving money or property to a relative.

This fact sheet describes a kind of housing where people have their own room in a shared house and get staff support.

A fact sheet about housing with support - mainly for older people.

A fact sheet that describes putting money into a trust - a long-term, secure financial provision for a relative.

This Guide is written primarily for staff working with people with learning disabilities and with their families and support networks. We assume some knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act 2005.

This factsheet describes how a disabled person can use Support for Mortgage Interest to buy a property.

This fact sheet describes shared ownership - including the option of the family funding a share.

Full text of claim for judicial review of the decision by the Minister for Disabled People made on 6 March 2014 to close the Independent Living Fund (“ILF”) with effect from 30 June 2015, and to transfer funding to the devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales, and to local authorities in England. The Claimants are severely disabled people who are current users of the ILF.